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Introducing Guest Blogger andré douglas pond cummings

Solangel Maldonado — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:10:01 +0000

It is my pleasure to introduce Professor andré douglas pond cummings of West Virginia University College of Law as a guest blogger. Professor cummings teaches and writes about investor protection and corporate law; race, affirmative action and social Justice; and entertainment and sports law. In addition to teaching at West Virginia where he has been named Professor of the Year numerous times, he has taught at the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Tokyo Japan Campus, and Syracuse University College of Law.

Professor cummings received his J.D. from Howard University and his B.S. from Brigham Young University. He clerked for Chief Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Associate Chief Justice Christine M. Durham, Utah Supreme Court. He was also an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago where he focused on complex business transactions and public securities offerings.

His recent publications include:

Reversing Field: Examining Commercialization, Labor, Gender and Race in 21st Century Sports Law, Editor (West Virginia University Press) (with Anne Marie Lofaso)

Hip Hop and the Law: The Writings That Formed the Movement, Editor (forthcoming 2012) (with Donald Tibbs)

Coyotes on Wall Street: The Surprising Motivations of Mortgage Meltdown CEOs (forthcoming 2012)

Families of Color in Crisis: Bearing the Crushing Weight of the Financial Market Meltdown, 55 Howard L.J. (forthcoming 2012)

“All Eyez on Me”: America’s War on Drugs and the Prison Industrial Complex, 15 Iowa J. of Gender, Race and Justice (forthcoming 2012)

“It Takes a Nation of Millions”: The Transformative Potential of Hip-Hop, 1 Southern U. Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty (forthcoming 2012)

Racial Coding and the Financial Market Crisis, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 141 (2011)

Post-Racialism?, 14 Iowa J. of Gender, Race and Justice 601 (2011)

The Associated Dangers of “Brilliant Disguises,” Colorblind Constitutionalism and Post-Racial Rhetoric, 85 Indiana L.J. 1277 (2010)

A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation, 48 Louisville L. Rev. 499 (2010).

Thug Life: Hip Hop’s Curious Relationship With Criminal Justice, 50 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 515 (2010).

You can find his author page here.

Welcome Guest Blogger Brishen Rogers

Dave Hoffman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:41:52 +0000

I’m pleased to welcome my colleague Brishen Rogers as a guest for the next month.

Brishen joined Temple’s faculty in 2010, and teaches torts, employment discrimination, and a seminar on current issues in labor law. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, Brishen was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Brishen’s scholarship draws on the social sciences and liberal political theory to better understand the role of law in constituting and regulating paid work relationships, with a particular focus on issues of concern to low-wage workers. One current project explores the role of law and social norms in shaping workers’ preferences towards unionization; another explores the proper role for minimum workplace entitlements in an egalitarian liberal state. His work has been published in the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, among others.

Brishen received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., with high distinction from the University of Virginia. Prior to law school, he worked as a community organizer promoting living wage policies and affordable housing, and spent several years organizing workers as part of SEIU’s “Justice for Janitors” campaign.

Welcome!

(Re)introducing Guest Blogger David Gray

Danielle Citron — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:39 +0000

I’m thrilled to welcome back my fabulous colleague David Gray as a guest blogger — just in time as so many criminal procedure decisions have been at the forefront of the news. Professor Gray is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and jurisprudence. His scholarly interests are eclectic, but focus on transitional justice, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional theory. His recent publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the California Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, the Fordham Law Review, and in prominent volumes edited by leading scholars. In addition to his own scholarship, Professor Gray works closely with students to develop and publish their work. Recent work written by or with his students has appeared in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, the Vermont Law Review, the Maryland Law Review, and in edited collections. Consistent with the Law School’s mission as a public educational institution, Professor Gray frequently provides expert commentary for local and national media outlets. Prior to joining the School of Law Faculty, Professor Gray practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law, clerked for The Honorable Chester J. Straub, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for The Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

His recent work includes:

Progressive Retribution?, 71 Maryland Law Review (forthcoming 2011) (with Jonathan Huber).

Feminist Perpsectives on Extraordinary Justice, in Conflict and Transitional Justice: Feminist Approaches (Martha Fineman & Estell Zinsstag eds., forthcoming 2011) (with Benjamin Levin).

Beyond Experience: Getting Retributive Justice Right, 99 Calfiornia Law Review 101 (2011) (with Dan Markel and Chad Flanders).

A No-Excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations as Tools of Extraordinary Justice, 87 Washington University Law Review 1043 (2010).

Book Review, Repairing Wrongs/Restructuring Societies, 4 International Journal of Transitional Justice 296 (2010) (reviewing The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations (Ruth Rubio-Marín ed., 2009); Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights (Barbara R. Johnston & Susan Slyomovics eds., 2008); and Antoine Buyse, Post-Conflict Housing Restitution: The European Human Rights Perspective, with a Case Study on Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008)).

Transitional Disclosures: What Transitional Justice Reveals About “Law,” in Transitions (Austin Sarat ed., forthcoming 2010).

A No-Excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations as Tools of Extraordinary Justice, 87 Washington University Law Review 1043 (2010).

Extraordinary Justice, 62 Alabama Law Review 55 (2010).

Punishment as Suffering, 64 Vanderbilt Law Review 1620 (2010).

A Modest Appeal for Decent Respect, 22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 72 (2010) (with Jessica Olive).

Constitutional Faith and Dynamic Stability: Thoughts on Religion, Constitutions, and Transitions To Democracy, 69 Maryland Law Review 26 (2009).

Why Justice Scalia Should Be a Constitutional Comparativist . . . Sometimes, 59 Stanford Law Review 1249 (2007).

Devilry, Complicity, and Greed: Transitional Justice and Odious Debt, Law & Contemporary Problems, Summer 2007, at 137.

An Excuse-Centered Approach to Transitional Justice, 74 Fordham Law Review 2621 (2006).

Rule Skepticism, “Strategery,” and the Limits of International Law, 46 Virginia Journal of International Law 563 (2006)

A Prayer for Constitutional Comparativism in Eighth Amendment Cases, 18 Federal Sentencing Reporter 237 (2006).

What’s So Special About Transitional Justice?, 100 American Society of International Law Proceedings 147 (2006).

Introducing Guest Blogger Joseph Turow

Danielle Citron — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:20:23 +0000

I’m thrilled to introduce Professor Joseph Turow who will be guest blogging with us this month. Professor Turow is the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and was presented with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Assn. A 2005 New York Times Magazine article referred to Professor Turow as “probably the reigning academic expert on media fragmentation.”

Professor Turow has authored nine books, edited five books, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. Yale University Press has just published his new book, The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth. In 2010 the University of Michigan Press published Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling and Medical Power, which is a history of prime time TV and the sociopolitics of medicine. Routledge recently published the fourth edition of his text Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. Other books reflecting current interests are Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2006). Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World (University of Chicago Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; Chinese edition 2004); and The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (edited with Lokman Tsui, University of Michigan Press, 2008).

Professor Turow’s continuing national surveys of the American public on issues relating to marketing, new media, and society have received a great deal of attention in the popular press as well as in the research community. He has written about media and advertising for the popular press, including American Demographics magazine, The Washington Post, Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times. His research has received financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

Professor Turow was awarded a Lady Astor Lectureship by Oxford University. He has received a number of conference paper and book awards, has lectured widely and been invited to give the Pockrass Distinguished lecture at Penn State University and to be a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecturer at LSU. He has served as the elected chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Professor Turow currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Poetics, and New Media & Society.

Introducing Elizabeth A. Wilson

Sarah Waldeck — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:17:19 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that Professor Elizabeth A. Wilson is joining us for a guest visit.

Elizabeth is an assistant professor in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University. She came to Seton Hall after working in private practice for nearly five years. As an Associate at WilmerHale and then at Baach Robinson & Lewis (now Lewis Baach), she worked on a number of high-profile cases, including Boumediene v. Bush and Rasul v. Myers. Her special expertise is damages litigation. Elizabeth is a former professor of English at Yale, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Joint Bunting Institute and Children’s Hospital Fellow on Family Violence.

Elizabeth’s publications include: Is Torture All In a Day’s Work? Scope of Employment, the Absolute Immunity Doctrine, and Civil Torture Litigation Against U.S. Officials, 6 Rutgers J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 175 (2008); The War on Terrorism and “the Water’s Edge”: Sovereignty, “Territorial Jurisdiction,” and the Reach of the U.S. Constitution in the Guantánamo Detainee Litigation, 8 UPenn J. Const L. 165 (March 2006); “’Suing for Lost Childhood’: Child Sexual Abuse, the Delayed Discovery Rule, and the Problem of Finding Justice for Adult-Survivors of Child Abuse, 12 UCLA Women’s L.J. 145 (2003). Her overview of post-9/11 damages litigation – “Damages or Nothing”: The Post-Boumediene Constitution and Compensation for Human Rights Violations After 9/11 –will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Seton Hall Law Review.

Elizabeth will begin blogging from Amman, Jordan, where she is working with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative on updating the human rights curriculum in Jordan’s law schools.

Introducing Guest Blogger Derek Bambauer

Danielle Citron — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:01:01 +0000

We are thrilled to welcome aboard Professor Derek Bambauer as a guest blogger. Professor Bambauer is an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Internet law and intellectual property. Next year, he will join the faculty of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He writes about Internet censorship, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. He has also written technical articles on data recovery and fault tolerance, and on deployment of software upgrades. A former principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. (part of IBM), Professor Bambauer spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At the Berkman Center, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative, an academic consortium that tests and studies Internet censorship in countries such as China, Iran, and Vietnam. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

His most recent publications include (see here for many more):

Conundrum, 96 Minnesota Law Review __ (forthcoming 2011)

Orwell’s Armchair, 79 University of Chicago Law Review __ (forthcoming 2012)

Introducing Guest Blogger Gabriella Coleman

Danielle Citron — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:22:45 +0000

I’m thrilled to introduce Professor Gabriella (Biella) Coleman who will be guest blogging with us this month. Trained as an anthropologist, Professor Coleman researches and teaches on digital activism and the culture and politics of hacking. Her first book, Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking is forthcoming in the fall of 2012 with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Department of Art History and Scientific Literacy at McGill University. We are so lucky to have Professor Coleman with us–welcome!

Introducing Mark Edwards

Sarah Waldeck — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:16:58 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that Mark Edwards is back for a repeat visit during the month of January. Mark is an Associate Professor at William Mitchell College of Law, where he teaches Property I, Property II, Comparative Property Rights, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Mark is regularly voted Teacher of the Year at William Mitchell and most recently received the award for academic year 2010-2011.

Mark is a contributing editor at PropertyProf Blog. His publications include Acceptable Deviance and Property Rights, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 457 (2010); Nationalization, De-Nationalization, Re-Nationalization: Some Historical and Comparative Perspective, 30 Pace Law Review 1214 (2009); Law and the Parameters of Acceptable Deviance, 97 J. of Crim. Law & Criminology 49 (2006) ; and The Path of the Law Ands, 1997 Wisc. Law R. 375 (1997) (with Marc Galanter). He is currently finishing an article on property restitution, particularly in the Czech Republic, where he has been doing research for the past two summers. You can find Mark’s SSRN page here.

Welcome back, Mark!

Happy Hour, AALS Style

Danielle Citron — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:04:53 +0000

Thanks to the leadership of Prawfsblawg’s Dan Markel, we will be gathering for another AALS blog happy hour. Please come join us on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 from 9 pm to around midnight for drinks and some snacks at LiLLiE’s Restaurant. Lillie’s is at 2915 Conn Ave, just a few minutes walk north of the Marriott Wardman hotel. (When you’re facing Conn from the hotel, turn left.) Here’s Dan Markel’s announcement. We so look forward to seeing you there.

Congratulations to New ALI Members, Including Dave Hoffman

Frank Pasquale — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:24:05 +0000

I’m late to this, but just wanted to note that our own Dave Hoffman has been elected to the American Law Institute. This is a well-deserved honor. Dave’s scholarship and blogging is uniformly illuminating, and often challenges my preconceived notions. I don’t think many law profs can live up to the “Socratic” ideal we’re tasked with, but Dave often exemplifies it.

I was also happy to see leaders in the worlds of health law (Diane Hoffmann) and cyberlaw (Christopher Yoo) on the list, as well as all-around nice & insightful guy, Matt Bodie. Congrats to all!

Introducing Guest Blogger Nicole Huberfeld

Solangel Maldonado — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:18:52 +0000

I am delighted to welcome Professor Nicole Huberfeld who will be blogging with us this month. Nicole is the Gallion & Baker Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law and Bioethics Associate at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Before joining the UK faculty in 2005, she was the Health Law Faculty Fellow at Seton Hall Law School. Nicole teaches structural constitutional law and a variety of healthcare law classes. Her scholarship focuses on the cross-section of constitutional law and federal healthcare programs with a particular interest in federalism and Spending Clause jurisprudence. Her article, Federalizing Medicaid, will be published this month in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She has been the recipient of the Duncan Teaching Award, a nominee for the University of Kentucky Great Teacher Award, and a nominee for the ALI Young Scholars Medal. Prior to academic life, she practiced regulatory and transactional healthcare law in New York and New Jersey.

Nicole’s recent works include:

Post-Reform Medicaid before the Court: Tension between Reinvention and Path Dependence (forthcoming symposium issue, Annals Health L.)

Challenging the Stakeholders: A Review of Laura Katz Olson, The Politics Of Medicaid (forthcoming, J. Legal Med.)

Federalizing Medicaid, 14 U. Pa. J. Const. L. ___ (forthcoming 2011)

Conditional Spending and Compulsory Maternity, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. 751

Bizarre Love Triangle: The Spending Clause, Section 1983, and Medicaid Entitlements, 42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 413 (2008)

Clear Notice for Conditions on Spending, Unclear Implications for States in Federal Healthcare Programs, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 441 (2008)

You can find Nicole’s SSRN author page here.

Introducing Guest Blogger Gilbert A. Holmes

Solangel Maldonado — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:07:50 +0000

I am delighted to welcome Gilbert A. Holmes, Professor of Law and former Dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, as a guest blogger. Professor Holmes joined the University of Baltimore School of Law in the summer of 2001, serving as Dean until 2007. He previously served on the faculty of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, where he was associate dean for academic affairs and budget (1999-2001). Professor Holmes also served on the faculties of Southern Methodist Law School (1995-1996), and Seton Hall University School of Law (1990-1994). Professor Holmes’ principal teaching has been in family law, contracts, and property. He was twice named Day Division Teacher of the Year at Texas Wesleyan, and was nominated for Teacher of the Year by the Seton Hall Law Student Bar Association on three occasions.

Professor Holmes has published articles on a range of family law and constitutional issues in such journals as The Maryland Law Review, The University of Miami Law Review, Temple Law Review and the Texas Wesleyan Law Review, and has presented on a host of topics at conferences and symposia across the country. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, and the Association of American Law Schools. He is admitted to practice in New York and before the United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Selected Publications

Conversations About the Intersecting Institutions of Marriage, 4 Texas Wesleyan L. Rev. 143 (1998)

The Extended Family System in the Black Community: A Child-Centered Model for Adoption Policy, 68 Temple L. Rev. 1649 (1995)

Student Initiated Prayer: Is It Speech or Religion, and Does it Matter Which, 49 U. Miami L. Rev 301 (1995)

The Tie That Binds: The Constitutional Right of Children to Maintain Relationships with Parent-Like Individuals, 53 Md. L. Rev. 358 (1994)

(Re)Introducing Guest Blogger Jeffrey Kahn

Danielle Citron — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:33:17 +0000

I am delighted to welcome back Professor Jeffrey Kahn, who will be guest blogging with us this month. During his last visit, Professor Kahn provided serious insight into national security concerns, and I’m excited to learn more about what he is up to. Professor Kahn just received tenure (congratulations, well deserved!) and a promotion to Associate Professor of Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law where he is also a Colin Powell Fellow at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. He teaches and writes on American constitutional law, Russian law, human rights, and counterterrorism. In 2010, he received SMU’s Outstanding Faculty Award, a university-wide award given each year to a junior, tenure-track faculty member for excellence in teaching, curricular development, and scholarship. In 2011, he received the Law School’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He is also a member of the founding Advisory Board for the SMU Human Rights Education Program.

Prior to academia, Professor Kahn clerked in the Southern District of New York and then served as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. His first book, Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia, was published by Oxford University Press. William Butler, reviewing the book for the Michigan Law Review book issue (100 Mich. L. Rev. 1444-52 (2002)) wrote: “… I have not seen a better account, or a more perceptive one, in any language. … Kahn’s study is the best and the most thoughtful account available of the early experience.” His second book, Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists, will be published next year by the University of Michigan Press.

His recent scholarship includes:

International Travel and the U.S. Constitution, 56 UCLA Law Review 271-350 (2008).

Zoya’s Standing Problem, or, When Should the Constitution Follow the Flag? 108 Michigan Law Review 673-725 (2010).

No-Limit Texas Hold’em, or, The Voir Dire in Dallas County, 13 Green Bag 2d 383-97 (2010).

The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel before the Age of Terrorism, 43 Connecticut Law Review 819-888 (2011).

The Case of Colonel Abel, 5 Journal of National Security Law & Policy 263-301 (2011).

The Rule-of-Law Factor, in Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics 159-83 (J. Newton & Wm. Tompson eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Adversarial Principles and the Case File in Russian Criminal Procedure, in Russia and the Council of Europe: Ten Years After 107-33 (K. Malfliet & S. Parmentier eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Vladimir Putin & the Rule of Law in Russia, 36 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 511-58 (2008) (quoted by name in a New York Times editorial, Russia’s Dictatorship of Law, Nov. 21, 2010).

Introducing Michael Zimmer

Sarah Waldeck — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:28:14 +0000

I’m pleased to welcome Michael Zimmer back to Concurring Opinions. A professor of law at Loyola University Chicago, Mike is a widely recognized scholar in the areas of employment discrimination law, labor and employment law and constitutional law. He is also co-author of one of the first (and still the leading) employment discrimination casebooks as well as co-author of the first casebook on international and comparative employment law.

Mike received his A.B. and J.D. from Marquette University, where he was Editor in Chief of the Marquette Law Review. He also holds an LL.M from Columbia University, where he was named a James Kent Fellow. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then served as an associate at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee.

He began his law school teaching career at the University of South Carolina and he has taught at a number of law schools, most recently as a visiting professor of law at Northwestern University. He joined the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1978, served as Associate Dean from 1990 to 1994 and was on the faculty until 2008.

Welcome back, Mike!

Introducing Guest Blogger Amanda Pustilnik

Danielle Citron — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:20:12 +0000

I am thrilled to introduce my colleague Amanda C. Pustilnik who will be guest blogging with us this month. Before I get started on her formal introduction, I wanted to let our readers know that we are in for a serious intellectual treat. Professor Pustilnik has an ever-creative mind–her scholarship and thinking always teach me something fascinating. So here’s her background: Professor Pustilnik is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Law & Neuroscience. Her current research includes work on models of mind in criminal law, evidentiary issues presented by neuroscientific work on memory, and the role of pain in different legal domains. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, she was a Climenko fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. Before entering the legal academy, she practiced litigation with Covington & Burling and with Sullivan & Cromwell, where she focused on white collar criminal matters. Professor Pustilnik also clerked for the Hon. Jose A. Cabranes on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She graduated Yale Law School and Harvard College, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, in the History and Philosophy of Science department. Professor Pustilnik has also worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant and is a member of the board of directors of the John Harvard Scholarships.

Her recent scholarship includes:

Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law, 97 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2012).

Violence on the Brain: A Critique of Neuroscience in Criminal Law, 44 Wake Forest Law Review 183 (2009).

Prisons of the Mind: Social Value and Economic Inefficiency in the Criminal Justice Response to Mental Illness, 96 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 217 (2006).

Book Review, Broad, Deep & Indirect: The Potential Influence of Neuroscience in Law, 2 Biosocieties 357 (2006) (reviewing Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain (2006)).

Introducing Guest Blogger Jennifer Hendricks

Solangel Maldonado — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:02:00 +0000

It is my pleasure to introduce Professor Jennifer Hendricks of the University of Tennessee College of Law as a guest blogger. Professor Hendrick teaches and writes about constitutional family law, gender, and federalism. The main focus of her current work is sex equality in parenting and reproduction. Her article Essentially a Mother, proposing a relationship model for pregnancy, won Honorable Mention in the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition in 2007. Her most recent work in this area, developing the relationship model as a woman-centered basis for a theory of reproductive and parenting rights, appears in the Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Review and in an international collection of feminist constitutional theory forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Professor Hendricks has also written about topics ranging from preemption of tort claims to reform of the electoral college.

Professor Hendricks received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard; clerked on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; and practiced law in Helena, Montana, where she specialized in constitutional, employment, and discrimination cases. In her practice, she successfully challenged illegal voter-redistricting and vote-counting, helped high school girls win equal sports opportunities, won access to government documents for reporters and private citizens, and defended several newspapers and ESPN against defamation claims. She also represented victims of harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation. She received her B.A. with honors in mathematics and women’s studies from Swarthmore College.

Her recent publications include:

In Defense of the Substance–Procedure Dichotomy, 89 WASH. U. L. REV. _ (forthcoming 2011) (Selected for the University of Illinois Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop).

Teaching Values, Teaching Stereotypes: Sex Ed and Indoctrination in Public Schools (with Dawn Howerton), 13 U. PENN. J. CONST. L. 589 (2011).

Pregnancy, Equality, and the U.S. Constitution, in FEMINIST CONSTITUTIONALISM (Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez & Tsvi Kahana eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).

Teaching Controversial Topics (with Beth Burkstrand- Reid and June Carbone), 49 FAM. CT. REV. _ (forthcoming 2011).

Converging Trajectories: Interest Convergence, Justice Kennedy, and Jeannie Suk’s “Trajectory of Trauma,” 110 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 63 (2010), reprinted in WOMEN AND THE LAW (Tracy Thomas, ed., West 2011).

Body and Soul: Pregnancy, Equality, and the Unitary Right to Abortion, 45 HARV. C.R.–C.L. L. REV. 329 (2010).

Contingent Equal Protection: Reaching for Equality After Ricci and PICS, 16 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 397 (2010).

You can find her author page here.

Introducing Guest Blogger Margaret Lewis

Solangel Maldonado — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:39:06 +0000

I am delighted to welcome my colleague, Professor Margaret Lewis, who will be blogging with us this month. Professor Lewis’s research focuses on the intersection of Chinese legal studies with criminal procedure, criminal law, and international law. She joined Seton Hall Law School as an Associate Professor in 2009.

Professor Lewis is a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and travels frequently to Asia. Her recent publications have appeared in the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law.

Most recently before joining Seton Hall, Professor Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship.

Professor Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Her recent publications include:

Presuming Innocence, or Corruption, in China, 50 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. __ (forthcoming 2012)

Controlling Abuse to Maintain Control: The Exclusionary Rule in China, 43 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 629 (2011) (awarded Jerome A. Cohen Prize for International Law and East Asia)

The Tension Between Leniency and Severity in China’s Death Penalty Debate, 24 Colum. J. Asian L. __ (forthcoming 2011) (invited submission)

The Enduring Importance of Police Repression: Laojiao, the Rule of Law and Taiwan’s Alternative Evolution, in The Impact of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Massacre (co-authored with Jerome A. Cohen) (Routledge, 2010)

Taiwan’s New Adversarial System and the Overlooked Challenge of Efficiency-Driven Reforms, 49 Va. J. Int’l L. 651 (2009)

China’s Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Asian J. of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007)

You can find Professor Lewis’s SSRN Author page here

Introducing Guest Blogger Timothy Zick

Danielle Citron — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:00:58 +0000

I am thrilled to welcome back Professor Timothy Zick as a guest blogger. Tim is Professor of Law and Cabell Research Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, where he has taught since 2008. After graduating summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Zick was an associate with the law firms of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and Foley Hoag in Boston. He clerked for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also served as an attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the United States Department of Justice.

Professor Zick’s recent scholarship focuses primarily on freedom of speech. His first book, Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. It is a superb book and our blog featured a Bright Ideas post on it, see here. His second book, The Cosmopolitan First Amendment, is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Tim’s recent publications include:

Falsely Shouting Fire in a Global Theater: Emerging Complexities of Trans-Border Expression, 65 Vand. L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2012).

The First Amendment in Trans-Border Perspective: Toward a More Cosmopolitan Orientation, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 941 (2011) (to be reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook: 2010-2011 Edition (Rodney A. Smolla ed., Thompson/West 2011)).

Property As/And Constitutional Settlement, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1361 (2010). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1493220

Symposium, Summum, the Vocality of Public Places, and the Public Forum, 2010 BYU L. Rev. 2203.

Territoriality and the First Amendment: Free Speech At — And Beyond — Our Borders, 85 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1543 (2010).

Introducing Guest Blogger Olivier Sylvain

Danielle Citron — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:59:49 +0000

I’m thrilled to welcome Professor Olivier Sylvain who will be guest blogging with us this month. Professor Sylvain is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. His academic interests include the public lawmaking processes generally and communications law and policy in particular. He teaches telecommunications law, Internet law, and administrative law. He is also a Research Associate at the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham.

Before teaching, Professor Sylvain was a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, LLC where he worked on a variety of constitutional law and telecommunications related matters. Before Jenner, he was the Marvin Karpatkin Fellow in the National Legal Office of the AmericanCivil Liberties Union.

Professor Sylvain’s recent scholarship includes:

Internet Governance and Democratic Legitimacy, Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2010)

Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 (2010) (dissertation)

Contingency and the “Networked Information Economy”: A Critique of the
“Wealth of Networks, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2008), pp.203-210.

Introducing Guest Blogger Corey Rayburn Yung

Daniel Solove — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:54:09 +0000

I’m delighted to introduce Professor Corey Rayburn Yung who will be joining us for a reprise guest visit.

Corey is an associate professor of law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He is a Visiting Professor at University of Kansas School of Law during the Fall and will be visiting at the University of Iowa College of Law in the Spring.

He joined the John Marshall faculty there in 2007 and teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, and a Sex Crimes Seminar. His scholarship is focused on sex crimes and judicial decision-making. His work related to sex offenders has been cited by federal courts and, in particular, the United States Supreme Court majority opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana. In regards to judicial decision-making, he is currently in the midst of a series of empirical studies of judges on the United States Courts of Appeals based upon a unique dataset that he has constructed.

His recent publications include:

* Beyond Ideology: An Empirical Study of Partisanship and Independence in the Federal Courts, 80 George Washington Law Review (forthcoming 2012)

* Flexing Judicial Muscle: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism in the Federal Courts, 105 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2011)

* Judged by the Company You Keep: An Empirical Study of the Ideologies of Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals, 51 Boston College Law Review 1 (2010)

* The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders, 45 Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review 435 (2010)